Relatively speaking, your possession of fundamental knowledge, such as Literature, Math, and human languages, is your illiquid assets, while your possession of applied knowledge, such as your trade skills, is your liquid assets.

How do you combine them and manage them?

Among female entertainment stars, there are two levels of wantonness. Nicole Kidman is one level, and Britney Spears the other.

Coffee is provided at no extra charge at that little Greek restaurant.

"Her gum is all bumpy. Her teeth are coming out," D said.

You saw those satellite dishes on top of house roofs? English literacy is like those, but in a person's head, hardly clearly visible but advantageous.

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OOP is just a layer, or dimension, of software creation. So are other whatever-oriented programming methodologies.

They are models, obviously. But are they also theories?

Our life is short. Amble along the beck, though.

In the future, what will possibly drain the massive wealth accumulated by China's government over the past decades? Wars?

So they'd better not to be involved in serious wars.

"Jack and Coke. Simple drink. There's nothing to it." the bartender said.

It must feel bitter for a CEO to be dismissed from his or her job. Given that CEOs get sacked quite often, why do so many people want to climb the corporate ladder and become a CEO or something? :-)

To go and work / study in a better place, be it Canada, the U.S., Harvard U., Princeton U., Stanford U., Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google Inc., doesn't automatically turn a person into a successful one.

Thinking that it would automatically happen is a pious hope, or even a pipe dream.

Sometimes knaves are fools because they think others are fools.

Faye / Fay is an interesting name.

Some flicks are more cerebral than others. And some books more cerebral too. Which ones do you choose?

How much goodwill in the world does China have at its beck?

Through hubbubs created by journalists, the negative sides of public figures get to be learned by the public.

Those public figures need to discipline themselves well and develop a pretty good sense of risk.

Recent examples include Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anthony Weiner.

When will the inherited craze for real estate of Chinese bottom out? In ten years?

And when will it begin to fade away? In twenty years?

Pics - Struts

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Challenges and failures break you down to build you up, if you know how to let them to.

There are many levels of friends, many of whom slide into oblivion.

其實，生活是一個謎。你用什麼心法來解謎？

In ancient China, some poets cast their feelings into bawds.

Probably there's going to be a superfluous supply of Chinese financiers.

Some Canadian small businesses have been reluctant to invest more in technology. Well, that sort of kicking the can down the road just won't help them at all.

In certain degree, in the U.S. and Canada, flexibility is what the recursion of cutting the funding of cultural, social, and academic research programs during economically hard times reflects.

When the interest of all taxpayers and that of the groups whose interest gets harmed by the cutting collide, it is the latter who loses.

Rearing an infant is like attending a longish boot camp. And, you'll appreciate your free time greatly more after that.

Which man doesn't have pangs in his young years?

People relay messages about opportunities from the front line.

你過分繁複卻又不夠精深、過分感性卻又不夠理性的舞步，讓我終於在了解後放手。

擦肩而過，一期一會。我們共舞過一次。我盡力地和你共舞過一次。

For my part, I think many of Google's efforts have been pious.

A harlot knows how to sell herself.

J sugared his coffee, a spoon in his hand.

Coffee drinking is an atmosphere. A culture.

Long time ago, I already sensed that in the U.S. and Canada, first-generation Chinese immigrants are typically jadedly clogged in their own career advancements by their typically quite insufficient English skills.

It seems that a PhD degree in Science, Math, Engineering, or Business is no longer an open sesame.

Because the English language is so vastly versatile, people's wonted ways of expression can be drastically different, I feel.

Manage your points of espial. And manage them well.

It's intriguing that accounting professionals in North America are sort of dismissively called "bean counters". Is that a popular misconception?

"Would you like some wine?" the waitress graciously asked. "Is it extra?" J replied. "Yes, it is." the waitress corresponded.

A string of characters.

People don't ping each other via emails as much as before. SNS has largely replaced that need.

Among the recent iterations of all the major browsers, Chrome and Firefox seem to have been leading the force, while Safari has been lagging behind in terms of performance and robustness. As for IE, who hasn't forgotten it?

"Did you assay him with entertainment?" J said.

Music video - Go no more a-roving - Joan Baez

Lyrics (Actually it's a poem "We'll go no more a-roving" by Lord Byron):

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. 1788–1824

599. We'll go no more a-roving 

SO, we'll go no more a-roving
  So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
  And the moon be still as bright. 

For the sword outwears its sheath,         5
  And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
  And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
  And the day returns too soon,              10
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
  By the light of the moon.

http://www.bartleby.com/101/599.html

Improving their English levels is a gigantic drain on the myriad young people in the non-English-speaking developing countries.

The songs by Chyi Chin, a famous male Taiwanese singer, are my Proustian pleasure.

Some Westerners don't possess very sophisticated English. So their judgement over that matter isn't impeccable. When an ESL learner speaks or writes, they get his or her drift and then they think his or her English is good, which actually isn't the case.

Sophistication is key.

For a man with ambitions, buying mortgaged real estate in his twenties is a decoy presented as property. It would clog his freedom to pursue his ambitions.

Are teenagers in Canada set to bloom?

美國各色嗎？中國各色嗎？

In the literature of mathematics which is in Chinese and English, the Greek alphabet was introduced into it for the purpose of mathematical notations.

I wonder which symbols stand for those notations in the literature of Math which is in Greek. The English alphabet?

The Canadian government should accede to the proposals that Canada opens its telecom industry to foreign ownership and competition, especially to American ownership and competition, I guess.

I'm telling you, I've been battling with information overload for a long time. I'm not alone. Info. overload is an epidemic of our era.

Everyone of us who's not out of touch has to TOUGH IT OUT, I'm afraid.

Dismissing mercenary thoughts facilitates one's career, doesn't it?

對死去者獻上我們的敬意，並抱持一種社區式的負責的態度。

一地雞毛。一地蒜皮。

Our baby daughter's appetite shifted lately. We've been having headaches because of that.

LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE (Royal Ballet of U.K.) - Clog Dance by William Tuckett

"
William Tuckett dancing the clog dance in "La Fille Mal Gardée"
Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Music: Ferdinand Hérold arranged by John Lanchbery
Royal Ballet 2005
"

When will the commonplace personal debt problem of Canadians bottom out?

"The lank woman was singing," J said.

For my part, my physical weakness in my childhood wreaked me to have missed something.

Vodka's viscosity is a little higher than that of whiskey and rum.

Well, I'm afraid that the high pressures of competition on the young people positioned in the big cities of China are not going to relent during the coming fifteen years at least.

Alcan is running an ad on the Montreal Gazette which writes "99% virtuosity, 1% aluminum" with a large pic of a jazz artist playing his instrument. Isn't that ad excellent?

我的思維空間不夠開闊。

English learning is not always sunshine and breeze. Sometimes, it's a lot of travails.

Many problems recur sooner or later. So you need to face them directly and solve them partially or completely.

On a related note, you must discern and filter out the trivial problems which will be solved automatically by the environment over time.

The PhD degree is no longer a diadem in terms of academic capability. Too many and too many people have it.

You know, the Chinese descendants overseas are quite good at devising excellent names for the food they sell and the restaurants they run.

There's the "fortune cookie", there's the "dim sun". And there's a lackluster Chinese restaurant in Montreal called "Fay Wong". Why isn't the wonton called 'wanton' instead? :-)

Don't take this little joke seriously, please.

Taking risks means taking losses on the chin.

Will the opprobrium of the entire world at the Wall Street be temporary or permanent?

When the breezes arose, I was standing under the short blooming tree, whose dropped white blossoms covered the pavement.

學習分兩種：有交流的學習、沒交流的學習。

Rheum were shed in private spaces and moments.

No one else saw them.

Is it a portent of a more turbulent Africa that China increasingly relies on the resources produced by the continent?

Ideally, generations of the human kind work in relays in this world.

The fate of Hecuba, the wife of King Priam, was so tragic.

How come all evils and monsters in Hollywood flicks are vanquishable?

Collisions between people in a relationship drain them.

A question: Why is the Christian God "a jealous god"?

As in the Bible:Exodus 20:5, "You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me".

Truth 最有效率。用智慧來探尋 truth，把和 reality 的對接成本最小化。

There's relatively too much bawdry on the Chinese internet media's websites.

The clouds are subtle to sight on this cloudy day.

用你的腦和心來化合 ideas。

Well, I tend to be dismissive of the belief held by many English learners who are Chinese that studying American soap operas such as "Friends" can really elevate one's English proficiency. Doing that just turns them into familiarized consumers of American pop cultural products.

I'm gonna be more thick-skinned.

The "Shield of David", the symbol of the Jewish people and Judaism, is quite interesting.

See the name's origin here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_David#Origin_of_the_name .

(Pic "Star of David" by zeevveez / http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeevveez/2667648511/ / Creative Commons)

"Go into the washroom, draw out your drain, and shoot out the liquid," J said.

It's not easy at all to take stock of my information intaking and check the information overload.

"An extra pair of socks?" D said.

The jig is up. Wall Street's embedded interest is against that of the people in the U.S. So its decline is deadly obvious. I don't understand why so many and many young people in China dream or want to flock there.

Quote, It's my business, not your business, unquote.

Another occasion, the same person. Quote, It's your business, not mine, unquote.

Montclair maples.

Vital is the management of your current and future financial obligations. And, no, your mortgaged house is not true property. On the contrary, it is your ongoing obligation, your compulsory commitment, your binding debt.

Journalists do intimate and insinuate.

The awesome blossom of American talents is the envy of the world.

Yielding new and deeper understanding typically makes my day, during some days.

The walking civilians get impeded and clogged by the emperor in the carriage. So they wanted individualism and democracy.

The hush of the death of life in that empty land.

A person's whole life is only a mote, from the perspective of history.

How much feelings of helplessness was present in Chinese leaders' minds when they decided to begin to allow people who wanted to go and study or emigrate abroad to be dismissed?